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...trunks of the 1890's, trunks that grandfather and grandmother packed, trunks that still repose in many a U. S. attic. Women packed them with patient art, men loaded them with chaotic haste; bent backs and weary arms accompanied their movement. Travelers, arriving at destinations, had first to unpack trunks, lest folded garments acquire permanent wrinkles...
...charge of the Naval detachment of the Expedition which was to have flown to the North Pole from Etan, one of the farthest North bases of MacMillan. He planned to take three Loening Amphibian planes as far North as was possible in the Expedition's steam vessel, to unpack them at Etah, and then to fly North to Cape Columbia or Cape Thomas Hubbard where a flying base could be established. From Axel Heiberg land the planes were to attempt the flight over unexplored territory to the North Pole. The expedition fell short of its goal because of unprecedented weather...
...building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories are now in course of erection. And now, within a week, the Provost...
...Yale eight were prevented from taking their first practice on the Hudson yesterday morning as they arrived too late Sunday night to unpack their shells. The shells were taken ashore as early as practicable and were found to have sustained no injury during their transportation from New London. The morning was spent in rigging them and getting them ready for the afternoon practice...
...didn't want to; but she put it through with maidenly tact. We took the steamboat Hippolyta to Boston, and went at once to Hotel Br-nsw-ck. We were shown, - how can I say it! - we were shown to Suite 16. Adelinda went into the next room to unpack her trunk, and I was left alone, the prey of conflicting emotions. Being torn in different directions, I could not breathe freely. I rose, and paced quickly up and down the room. Suddenly I espied a scrap of paper in the corner. I went for it at once...